With the Senate’s adoption of its FY 2025 budget recommendation yesterday evening, the next step in the process of adopting the FY 2025 budget is the appointment of the Conference Committee members to resolve differences between the overall House and Senate FY 2025 budget recommendations. The Committee’s deliberations will include reconciling a recommendation for additional funding of $50 million for nursing facility care, as well as a new higher education persistence and basic needs program to help support low-income students of state universities and community colleges who face obstacles in completing their degrees.
The Conferees are expected to be appointed next week to begin the process. Mass Senior Care will continue its advocacy efforts to increase nursing facility spending in FY 2025 in order to increase wages for our dedicated staff, hire additional direct care workers to further alleviate staffing shortages and funding to care for our more medically complex patients.